Passive heating/ Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...PassiveSolarHeating& Cooling?Passiveheatingand cooling of homes is not new . The above image is of Mesa Verde National Park, the Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings in Colorado, occupied from 700 to 1300 AD. This early North American settlement was shaded from the summer sun, but fully exposed to the sun in wint...

...heatingbut they are often noisy and need fixing and we decided they wouldn't be needed. Related topics to how well heat pumps work In LEED orPassiveHouse homes : The benefits of coupling air source and water heater heat pumps Comparing ground source (geothermal) and air source heat pumps Which are the be...

...passively-heated home. See post 1 of the off-grid homes blog here . or post 3 in the off-grid homes blog here . This off-grid home design began with the basic principles ofpassiveheatingand cooling - invest in really good windows, face as many of them south as you can to gain heat, and install heavy duty insulatio...

...heating该系统于1939年在麻省理工学院校园内建成，安装在一个巨大的水库上，由太阳能热板加热。MIT太阳能房子的热电池什么是相变热电池?利用“相变”提高了b…

...heatingthe hot water tank instead. What this adds up to is Energy savings; ideal forPassiveSolar Homes , ZNE, PNE, LEED &PassiveHouse projects . If you are interested in getting a quote for a Legalett air heated slab floor forming system, see here .PassiveSolar radiant air-heated floor slab on grade form k...

...passivesolar home construction, we begin withpassivesolar design basics, orienting the future house on the site to take full advantage of the free heat available from the sun while keeping it cool with natural shading in the summer. See more about Solar Batteries, how to storepassivesolar heat ,PassiveHouse De...

...passiveheatingand cooling. It is exposed to the sun in winter and shaded in the summer. Image via nationalparks.org In reviving the ancient building technique ofpassiveheatingand cooling, the Saskatchewan Conservation House showed us what was possible in terms of solar heat collection and retention with mod...

...passiveheatingand sunlit living space in Solariums: Comfort, durability and energy efficiency are best achieved ifpassiveheatingstrategies are designed as an integrated part of the building envelope. This is best served by choosing high-performance windows that would ideally be triple-paned. Additionally, incl...

...passiveheatingand cooling for Ecohome, and writing aboutPassiveHouse, we were in contact with Harold Orr, a world-renowned environmental engineer, pioneer of the very concept of 'green building'. and who was recently awarded the Order of Canada for his pioneering contribution to energy-efficient home construction. ...

...passivesolar house is simply one that has been designed to take advantage of that.Passivesolarheatingis yet another green building design feature that will save you money while improving your quality of life, EcoHome even have a design and rating system designed around it called ThePassiveSolar Index - check i...

...PassiveHouse Institute) and PHIUS (PassiveHouse Institute US) and for Canada there isPassiveHouse Canada and the CanadianPassiveHouse Institute . This guide aims to describe the origins ofPassiveHouse certification , which can be accredited to a very futuristicPassiveSolarheatingdesign home built in the 197...